Peasant Party

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Mikołajczyk

...premier and minister of agriculture and land reform. At the Potsdam Conference, he tried to press the interests of a free Poland, a condition that was agreed upon but ignored. Mikołajczyk’s
Peasant Party leaders, as the only organized non-Communist opposition, suffered from repeated intimidation and arrests. When the manipulated election of 1947 foreshadowed a Stalinist takeover,...

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Wojciechowski

...of the war and from January 1919 to July 1920 served as minister of the interior in three separate cabinets of the new Polish Republic. He was elected to the Sejm (Diet) as a member of the Polish
Peasant Party in November 1922. When Gabriel Narutowicz, president of the republic, was assassinated in December 1922, Wojciechowski was chosen to succeed him.

Moczar’s opposition

...the activities of the secret police and police reservists in combating the anti-Communist underground. He is reputed to have ordered intimidation of and terrorism against members of the independent
Peasant Party before the 1947 elections. As minister of the interior (1964–68), Moczar directed the activities of the secret police and internal army. He was ousted from the Polish United...

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